Word: kharkov
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...worst news for Russia last week was not the peril to Sevastopol, nor the Nazi advance below Kharkov. For the U.S.S.R. and her Allies, the worst news was that on the two fronts where the Germans attacked in strength last week they had more men, more planes, more tanks, more everything than the Russians...
...Kharkov Front, the admitted Nazi superiority was even more ominous. There the Russians had unlimited airfield space. Only the demands of other fronts and Russia's military capacity limit the forces available to Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Except at Sevastopol, which made no demands because it could not be reinforced, the other fronts were comparatively quiet...
...remaining manpower," then a reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets River and Kharkov—the one tangible gain which the Russians held after their May offensive waned...
...Kharkov action was local in its immediate purpose and effect; it was not. the major Nazi offensive which the world still awaited. Berlin stated the simple fact when a communiqué called the Kharkov advance an action to "straighten the lines...
...northern terminus of the vast front, 2,000 miles from Sevastopol, did not turn wise eyes from the south. For the immutable, basic fact of Hitler's war remained. He must have oil, and the two points where he showed his greatest strength last weekevastopol and Kharkov—are on the road to the oil of the Caucasus...